Mk6 LED Taillights

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*** Retrospective Summary of This Thread ***

• Golf R LED Tails can be ordered from a number of sources, including a German VW dealer referred by Ozram, and SteveP in the UK.
• The LEDs come in two flavours - the darker, tinted tails as fitted to the R, and a lighter untinted set that match the stock GTI colour and are available as a factory option on TSIs, TDIs and GTIs in Europe.
• Installation is quite simple; see Ozram's DIY, and Golfitup's YouTube install DIY.
• Some coding (with VCDS) will be required; see AdamD's coding summary, and Golfitup's YouTube coding DIY.
• Dealers are generally not offering to supply or install the LEDs, although at least one member has had his dealer install the LEDs he supplied, at time of delivery.

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Original Post:

Over on the UK GTI forum they are flipping out because VW has apparently already upgraded the MY10 GTI with LED rear lights and keyless entry.

Apparently the LED's look like this (on GTI R here):

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/ne...aspx?im=276438

Does anyone know whether the LED tail lights are on the GTI's spotted in Aus?

If not, this could mean that the first shipment will be "out-of-date" even before delivery. Unless VW dumps the old tail lights on Oz, you would think that once we start getting the GTI then supply of GTI's with the LED's should not be too far behind UK.

My dealer says that they think there is at least one ship load of GTI's in the country already. I know nothing about how VW runs its production lines for UK and Aus. Apperently the Aus cars are built in Germany. Assuming they build the RHD cars on the same production line, then this probably means the first shipment would not have the LEDs.

I have got my fingers crossed (a) that they release the GTI soon; (b) that I don't have to wait too long after the release for a car (sold my old car and the novelty of riding my bike to work in the rain is wearing thin); and (c) that it comes with the full MY10 spec including LED tail lights.